Paid SUSE developers will no longer be officially taking part in making openSUSE releases, after lots of uncertainty. SUSE developers will still be involved in openSUSE but not in making the actual releases. For more details on that story, see this factory mailing list thread.

The news for openSUSE end users today is that openSUSE 13.2, the next release of this German-founded Linux distribution, will not come until November. In part due to these changes and not wanting to put out a major release during the summer months, openSUSE 13.2 is planned for a November release.

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